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Act like a professional to be a professional: Slattery

JAMIE WILLIAMSON  |  WEDNESDAY, 15 FEB 2017
To regain the trust of Australians the SMSF sector must maintain the standards expected and demanded of professionals and to think otherwise is delusional. Opening the 2017 SMSF Association National Conference in Melbourne, chief executive Andrea Slattery ...

Bump in business confidence and conditions

BENJAMIN ONG  |  WEDNESDAY, 15 FEB 2017
Now that's more like it. The NAB monthly business survey showed both business confidence and conditions on the rise. Unlike the seemingly inconsistent result from the December survey - where business conditions gained 4 points while business confidence ...

FICAP RockStar fundraiser draws record support

DARREN SNYDER  |  MONDAY, 13 FEB 2017
FICAP, the Financial Industry Community Aid Program, has announced the details of its much anticipated Who wants to be a RockStar event. The annual RockStar event enters its 11th year in 2017, and will be held on Thursday, 23 March. FICAP is shaking ...

Sunny days not expected to last

BENJAMIN ONG  |  FRIDAY, 10 FEB 2017
The sun in Japan gets to break out every once in a while, and only for a short time. The latest update on private core machinery orders (orders excluding ships and electrical equipment) - a leading indicator of business investment - proves as much. ...

Suncorp begins life business optimisation

DARREN SNYDER  |  THURSDAY, 9 FEB 2017
Suncorp is implementing an optimisation program for its Australian life insurance business in a bid to improve competitiveness and achieve better customer outcomes. Announcing its half-year results today, Suncorp said it was rolling out the optimisation ...

AMP cops short-term pain

JAMIE WILLIAMSON  |  THURSDAY, 9 FEB 2017
AMP's wealth management inflows took a hit in 2016 as its adviser network felt the impact of legislative reform. Cashflows in to the wealth management division were impacted by regulatory uncertainty which caused investors to be wary of contributing ...

Rothschild snaps up former Goldman Sachs exec

JAMIE WILLIAMSON  |  TUESDAY, 7 FEB 2017
In an expansion of its equity capital markets advisory business, a former Goldman Sachs executive will join Rothschild Global Advisory. Previously head of equities for Goldman Sachs' Australian and New Zealand business, David Acton has been appointed ...

Wilson lodges to scrap Hunter Hall LIC board

ALEX BURKE  |  FRIDAY, 3 FEB 2017
Wilson Asset Management chair Geoff Wilson will lodge a requisition of shareholders meeting to remove the current Hunter Hall Global Value board and appoint three new independent directors. The proposed directors are corporate lawyer Kym Evans, Affinity ...

Don't follow consensus: Baur

JAMIE WILLIAMSON  |  FRIDAY, 3 FEB 2017
If you want to understand the US and global economies and where they're going, you've got to think outside the box because sometimes the most obvious realities are the hardest to see. That was the key message from Principal Global Investors' chief global ...

Government to aid growth of social impact investment

EMMA RAPAPORT  |  MONDAY, 30 JAN 2017
The Turnbull Government will explore ways to facilitate social impact investment market growth and determine possible regulatory barriers, marking the next step in implementing the Financial System Inquiry's recommendations. In the government's 'Social ...